An in-depth exploration of the evolution of PostgreSQL’s buffer manager locking mechanisms over three decades, highlighting key design decisions and their impact on performance and concurrency.

A guide offering practical advice on crafting technical blog posts that effectively engage and inform developer audiences, emphasizing clarity, structure, and relevance.

An overview of identity tokens, detailing their role in authentication and authorization processes, and providing best practices for implementing secure and efficient access control mechanisms.

A technical analysis by Google’s Project Zero team on the NSO Group’s BLASTPASS exploit, which targeted Apple’s iMessage using malicious WebP images to achieve zero-click remote code execution.

A concise reference guide summarizing key algorithms related to visual data processing, offering quick insights into their applications and implementations.

If you have some old Raspberry Pi hardware lying around, this could be a great hobby project.

An examination of the relationship between MySQL’s transaction throughput and the filesystem’s synchronization operations, discussing how fsync frequency impacts database performance.

An article discussing techniques to enhance shell history search functionality, including the integration of tools like fzf for more efficient command retrieval and improved productivity.

A discussion on transformative PostgreSQL design patterns, such as using UUID primary keys, implementing timestamp fields, enforcing strict foreign key constraints, utilizing schemas for organization, and employing enum tables for data integrity.

A comprehensive guide addressing PostgreSQL’s transaction isolation anomalies, providing practical examples and strategies to understand and mitigate issues like dirty reads, lost updates, and phantom reads.

Single sign-on for SSH is a dream. No longer dealing with keys, editing ~/authorized_keys files, or modifying LDAP or PAM configurations. Easy to revoke and offboard developers.

An introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), explaining its purpose, functionality, and how it can streamline development processes by providing contextual model information.